Undated bills and receipts, approximately 1780s-1870s
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Includes bills and receipts of Ingram family dating back to the late eighteenth century. Includes bills of articles for household items; notes on the hiring out of enslaved labor; notes on allowances to and earnings from the labor of enslaved persons and other plantation workers; settlements of accounts and debts; notes on legal fees. A majority of documents concern plantation labor, and several include names of enslaved persons. Includes a list of enslaved persons named as the taxable property of Joseph Ingram Sr. (undated): Jacob, Dick, Durgan, Jbe, George, Charles, Jack, Bill, Andy, Jane, Lottery, [May?], Jude, Silva, Jerry, Sellar, Eve, Lary.
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